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Member Spotlight - September 2008
Donald Jack
Donald Jack, M. Ph., Cr.
Donald Jack is a retired professional photographer, author and lecturer. His photographic career started as a student in high school in Omaha, Nebraska and continued on for 45 years, during which time he built and controlled the operations of three portrait and commercial photography studios in the Omaha market. During the Donald Jack active era, his staff of five photographers captured the storybook events at more than 5,000 weddings.
Within those 45 years, he received every award and degree offered by the Professional Photographers of Nebraska and has earned nearly 400 merits for photographic achievement, by the Professional Photographers of America.
He co-conducted more than 40 world tours for professional photographers, assisting attendees in producing photographic adventure shows, as well as writing articles about the adventures, for their own community public relations programs.
He has lectured at more than 200 national and international photographic conventions and seminars, on the subjects of portraiture, weddings and the business of photography.
During his professional career, he authored articles for many professional photography journals. He has created ten video study sessions and in 2004 he produced and published two workbook manuals, pertaining to every aspect of our profession.
He now resides in Scottsdale, Arizona, and will be the featured speaker at this month's "President's Pot Luck and Studio Tour." He will offer his new convention power point program especially prepared for photographers who feel they are just not attracting their share of the more financially qualified clients in their marketplace.The topics in this 2-hour program addresses the current concerns and issues of operating a studio, in today's changing business climate.
This is a three part program. Key topics include, how to generate greater public awareness and appreciation for who you are and to what you have to offer, how to produce a more refined and interesting set of digital images, and how to eliminate resistance at the time of the sale.Portrait lighting, posing and presentation of the digital images are part of this program, as is a carefully structured approach to photographing weddings.
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